MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Destroy All Planets (1969)
American International Television renamed nearly all of the Gamera movies for television. This is really Gamera vs. Viras. This time, Gamera is defending our planet from aliens. He starts off by destroying one of their ships, but not before an entire planet declares that he is their enemy. The aliens come back to Earth and learn […]
EXPLORING: Sons of Hercules
I’m obsessed with the packages that were sold to UHF channels in the 1960s. Through these collections of movies, which are almost the Mill Creek fifty packs of their time, these small stations got a ton of films that they could show at any time, however they wanted. For an example of another syndicated package, […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Crash of the Moons (1954)
Hollingsworth Morse went from the casting department at Paramount Pictures to serving under director George Stevens in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He saw plenty of Europe and helped capture footage of the Battle of Normandy and other significant events of World War II. When he came back to the U.S., he directed plenty of […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Cosmos: War of the Planets (1977)
For an entire article on the space films of Alfonso Brescia, visit this link. Space is all about computers, at least in Italy in 1977. It’s also very close to when Star Wars was a big deal, so if there could be some cheaply made versions of an already big movie, Italy knew how to do […]
VISUAL VENGEANCE BLU RAY RELEASE: Vampires and Other Stereotypes (1994)
Kevin J. Lindenmuth is still making movies as recently as 2015 with The Life of Death. Yet he started his career here, directing and writing a movie that seems to come fully aware and alive from a world already built. It begins with Ivan (Bill White) being told by a woman that he’s about to meet […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: The Desperate Hours (1955)
Directed by William Wyler and written by Joseph Hayes and Jay Dratler, it was based on Hayes’ novel and stage play. That play had Paul Newman in the lead, but Humphrey Bogart was a much bigger star for the movie. The story is based on the Hill family of Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania. On September 11 […]
VCI BLU RAY RELEASE: The Gamblers (1970)
Based on the Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel The Gambler, this is a movie of gambling, confidence men, dirty tricks, twists and so many turns. Director Ron Winston mostly worked in TV, directing episodes of Branded, Hawaii Five-O and McMillan & Wife. There’s a fun cast, including Richard Ng as martial artist Koboyashi, Don Gordon as the protagonist […]
Spagvemberfest 2023 and Arrow Video Savage Guns box set: El Puro (1969)
El Puro (Robert Woods, Massacre Mania, Lucifera Demon Lover) was once a dangerous and much feared gunfighter. But today, well, he’s a drunk lying low in a nothing town, concerned that a killer trying to make his name by shooting him is behind every corner. He’s treated as a whipping boy by every man in the bar […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960)
Vittorio Sala made the Eurospy film Spy in Your Eye as well as Beach Casanova, Bang You’re Dead and Diamonds Are a Man’s Best Friend. He made this along with the traditional large army of writers, which included Ennio De Concini, Fulvio Fo, Augusto Frassinetti, Giorgio Mordini, Vittorio Nino Novarese and an actual Oscar winner in Ennio […]
UNEARTHED FILMS BLU RAY: August Underground’s Mordum (2003)
The sequel to August Underground, this shot on digital video — in Pittsburgh — movie is supposed to look like snuff and does a pretty good job of getting close, one assumes. Peter Mountain (director and writer Fred Vogel) now has a girlfriend, Crusty (Cristie Whiles) who also has a relationship with her brother Maggot (Michael […]
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